The return of the Greenpeace Cyberactivist Community
We've soft-launched the new Greenpeace discussion forum! Greenpeace loyalists will remember the fun we had over the years at the old GCC, where we
- named the Greenpeace ship "Esperanza" in an online competition
- found a volunteer ("Polecat") to go to the Amazon to help indigenous people
- recruited more than 60 million USD in potential tourist income to Iceland if they'd stop whaling (that's now more than
90100 million and climbing!) - provided an activist resource for user-run campaigns from New Zealand to Italy to Finland
- held open forums with Greenpeace staff and campaigners
- cranked up the volume on countless Greenpeace actions with a fabulous network of multipliers
- and ran or created an entire suite of Greenpeace actions that originated with the community rather than in-house
The forum also provided, of course, a great sounding board for supporters to question Greenpeace about its policies and decisions, and for Greenpeace staff to sound out the community on new ideas and innovations.
The old system was built on Squishdot by Eco-wizard Radagast with no budget at a time when no major green group was running a forum of any description. It eventually fell victim to its own success, collapsing under the weight of too many users, too many threads, and a server that developed early-onset arthritis from running too many triathalons at the age of five.
Our new system is built on Vbulletin, software which we bought for the princely sum of less than 200 bucks and has all the bells and whistles you'd ever want from a discussion forum. Rate threads, rate users, private messaging, opinion polls, RSS feeds in RSS feeds out, Avatars, etc.
Let us know what you think as we crank up toward our launch window. We call it Louder than Words now, but we're looking for suggestions. And what about the colors? (That's always good for a rip-roaring argument, it seems) What stuff do you want to see on the front page? Jump in, ye Cyberactivists Online Activists old and new, let us know what you think.
It's your basement -- tell us what to put on the walls and where you want the couch.
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Comments
Hey! Great job!
But should I register again or can I use my old inscription to log in there??
-Bilel
Posted by: Bilel Saadallah | October 24, 2006 5:23 PM
Ayudanos a salvar los ecosistemas de fondo marino en alta mar:
FIRMEN AQUI y APOYA A SALVAR EL PLANETA
http://www.ecoceanos.cl/sitio/docs/carta_gobierno-fondosmarinos.php
Posted by: Patricio Igor Melillanca | October 24, 2006 8:45 PM
I was just wondering how come no one has comment? Get a life and study the facts from both sides!!!!! Stop imagining the dolphins that talk in the cartoons... This is not that simple, and they are not that smart:)
Posted by: Cristian | October 24, 2006 8:56 PM
Parabéns pela bela e vital obra de vocês!!!! Sucesso hoje e sempre!
Na esperança de ver resultados positivos e imediatos,
Bjs na alma,
Solange Zomer
www.soso.omeu.com.br
Posted by: Solange Zomer | October 24, 2006 9:39 PM
What happens to all the trees that get cut down by those damn industrialists
Posted by: TREE | October 30, 2007 3:44 AM
good day to all ye greenpeace ppl. just though id drop around to lend a hand to the other side of the argument persay. at the risk of being banned, i am excersing my right to free speech, just as u are too. the environment is fine. animals are fine. the whole friggin world is fine. shit dies, get over it, purely evolution baby. us humans must think way too highly of ouselves, thinking that we are about to destroy the world, after it has survived much worse after millions of years? we arent THAT good. Peace out (get it!!!)
Posted by: WorldDestroyer | October 30, 2007 3:47 AM
i love the environment. it is like, so cool. what can i do to help?
Posted by: WorldDestroyer | October 30, 2007 3:50 AM